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ESTERO, Fla. — Sources within women's basketball confirmed Saturday that the NCAA's ruling of a secondary violation regarding Geno Auriemma's congratulatory phone call to Little League star Mo'ne Davis resulted from a Southeastern Conference complaint on behalf of Vanderbilt University. Officials at Vanderbilt, the team UConn played Saturday night in the Gulf Coast Showcase, declined to comment. In September, UConn was instructed to order corrective action for Auriemma that was to include rules education and a letter of admonishment. When the sanction was announced, UConn athletic director Warde Manuel said he did not agree with it. "The NCAA has determined...

Events leading up to the death of former Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas, who died in a single-car crash in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday night, are under investigation by authorities who received multiple inquiries from drivers who claim Bironas...

By now, school has begun for all students across the state and practice for fall sports teams has been underway for a while. Some schools offered team members an opportunity to participate in camps over the summer to prepare for the upcoming season,...

As Virginia’s governor ordered an investigation into the arrest of a black Chicago college student outside a pub, friends and family expressed shock that someone as highly regarded as Martese Johnson could wind up bloodied on the ground after a run-in...

Sitting in the darkness that is the inside of Zanies comedy club no matter the time of day or the glare of the sun on Wells Street outside, it is impossible not to be thrown back into the past.
That is because the walls of the club, almost every square...

MILWAUKEE In the next year or two, doctors will begin routinely monitoring cancer using a potentially revolutionary technique that searches for a genetic signature in a blood sample, according to experts in the field. The new method, known as a...

The gang-rape conviction of two former Vanderbilt University football players sends signals out in every direction.
To the two young men, Tuesday's verdicts show that being drunk out of your mind doesn't excuse criminal behavior.
Once doted on as...

At N/a'an ku sê, a wildlife sanctuary in Namibia, several volunteers sported curious bumps beneath their outerwear. The lumpy mounds covered their torsos, and a ball-like shape protruded from their chests. Tails dangled from the hems of their...

Events leading up to the death of former Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas, who died in a single-car crash less than a mile from his home in Nashville on Saturday night, are under investigation by authorities who received multiple inquiries from drivers...

With hundreds of patients in Africa suffering the devastating effects of Ebola, health experts are scrambling to determine which drugs might offer the best experimental treatment, and researchers are being pressed by government officials to speed up their...

I like to run. Apparently, this gets me high.
Last year, researchers at the University of Arizona published a study in the Journal of Experimental Biology examining the "neurobiological rewards" of treadmill running in 10 humans, eight dogs and...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One in five high schoolers has permanent ringing in the ears, and few take measures to protect their ears from loud music, according to a new study. Those numbers are surprisingly similar to results of a study of college-aged...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A good hospital will get heart attack victims into an operating room and get their clogged artery open within 90 minutes. But a new study shows that shortening that time even further does not significantly lower the risk of...

Two-thirds of patients sick enough to land in a hospital intensive care unit come away from the experience with substantial mental deficits, a new study has found.
The new research, which quantifies a phenomenon long observed by critical-care physicians,...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using sunscreen every day may help protect against aging skin, according to a new study from Australia. Although the benefits of sunscreen are well know when it comes to preventing sunburns and lowering skin cancer risks,...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Postmenopausal women who work tend be in better health than their unemployed counterparts, according to a new study from South Korea. Researchers found that employed postmenopausal women were about 34 percent less likely to...